Raggle News

Ho Ho Ho, Meeerrryyy Raggle 0.4.4!

raggle-rss@pablotron.org (Paul Duncan) — Wed, 14 Dec 2005 23:42:40 +0000

Raggle 0.4.4 is now available for download. Here's what's new:

New "yank" command (bound to shift-Y by default) for feed items with either empty or truncated descriptions.
Added --update command-line option (update your Raggle from Cron, the moon, etc).
Switched to Ruby's built-in Logger class for logging. This gives us a cleaner log file format, log rotation, and log levels.
New purge-deleted keybinding (bound to shift-P by default).
Improved I18N support
Documentation updates.
Lots of squashed bugs.

Relevant URLs:

Faster Than You Can Say Raggle 0.4.3

raggle-rss@pablotron.org (Paul Duncan) — Mon, 15 Aug 2005 03:40:15 +0000

Raggle 0.4.3 is out! This is a bug fix release. Here's what's changed:

Added proper support for terminal transparency. To use it, set your the background portion of a palette entry to -1 (No more 200-day old bugs on bugs.debian.org, alright!).
Fixed screen description redraw issue from 0.4.2.
Added polish translation from Piotr Ozarowski.
Various documentation updates.

Here's where you can download this fine piece of software:

Raggle 0.4.2

raggle-rss@pablotron.org (Paul Duncan) — Tue, 09 Aug 2005 08:41:03 +0000

The latest and greatest Raggle is here. Version 0.4.2 is a bug-fix release with a kick. Check out some of the new features below:

Fix for invalid URI crash.
Improved SSL support.
Alpha Atom support. It's alpha, but at the moment it's good enough to read WordPress-generated Atom feeds.
RSS enclosure support. At the moment this just allows you to call an external command with an enclosure's title, URL, MIME type, and length, but that's still enough to whip up your own basic podcast support, bittorrent handling, etc. The gory details are available in doc/default_config.rb

And here's the requisite links:

It Had to Happen Eventually: Raggle 0.4.1

raggle-rss@pablotron.org (Paul Duncan) — Mon, 27 Jun 2005 21:50:23 +0000

Raggle 0.4.1 is now available for public consumption. Here's a brief list of changes since version 0.4.0:

Bookmarks (CSV, MySQL, SQLite, and exec backends). Bound to 'B' (shift-B) by default.
Fixed Unicode entity handling (ie, UTF-8 feeds not rendering)
Vastly improved Unicode and HTML entity rendering
Fixed host-relative URLs
A handful of other small fixes

Here are the relevant URLs:

Update: Here is the post to ruby-talk, which includes the changes mentioned above, a list of known packages, and unfettered praise for both Michael and Thomas!

Raggle Bug Tracker

raggle-rss@pablotron.org (Paul Duncan) — Sun, 29 May 2005 23:25:53 +0000

I've set up bug tracker for Raggle at http://bugs.pablotron.org/. You can submit bug reports, feature requests, and track progress that Thomas is making (and I'm taking credit for ;-D).

Linux Format Review

raggle-rss@pablotron.org (Paul Duncan) — Thu, 12 May 2005 05:55:35 +0000

Raggle was reviewed in the May issue of Linux Format magazine. They only reviewed version 0.3.2, so they missed out on all the new stuff in 0.4, but they still seemed to like it.

If you're curious about what's going on with Raggle development, visit my tech blog.

Oh Snap, It's Raggle 0.4.0!

raggle-rss@pablotron.org (Paul Duncan) — Sun, 20 Mar 2005 00:00:35 +0000

You heard it here first! Here's what's new:

category-based view filtering
feed search (via Syndic8.com)
feed editing
improved console HTML rendering
key bindings for mark unread, import/export OPML, opening links
current key bindings window
documentation updates (updated README, man page, full internal API docs, online help)
much better character encoding conversions (via iconv)
fixed terminal resizing
massive code cleanup
preliminary i18n support (via gettext-ruby)
fixed a metric ton of bugs
...and probably a bunch more stuff that I'm forgetting

Relevant URLs:

If you like this version of Raggle, you might want to email Thomas Kirchner know; a lot of the new features — feed editing, the keybindings help window, OPML import/export from the Curses interface — are his ~~fault~~ work. If you want to send money or cookies, I'll take those... Anyway, enjoy!

Raggle CVS and More

raggle-rss@pablotron.org (Paul Duncan) — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:28:35 +0000

What's new with Raggle development? We've got two development versions at the moment. The next major release of Raggle is available in CVS, and Squaggle, an SQLite-based rewrite, is also in the works. If you want to try out the development version now, you can grab a tarball from the Raggle CVS page (be sure to back up your $HOME/.raggle directory before trying the development version). Here's some of the stuff available in Raggle CVS:

Category support in the Ncurses interface
Preliminary Find Feeds feature (via Syndic8)
Improved console HTML rendering

Questions, comments, and suggestions are always appreciated.

Raggle 0.3.2 Released

raggle-rss@pablotron.org (Paul Duncan) — Sat, 27 Nov 2004 17:13:42 +0000

The latest stable version of Raggle is up for grabs. This is a maintenance release. Here's a list of major changes:

Fixed nil deref in populate_feed_win
PLATFORM => RUBY_PLATFORM fix from Robert McGovern. Fixes Cygwin weirdness
Patch from Michael Ablassmeier to fix Amphetadesk OPML import.
added vi-style g and G keybindings (suggested by Nick Welch)
Look for ENV['RAGGLE_WEB_DATA'], allows non-Program Files installs in Windows
Expand CDATA elements before parsing. This fixes feeds with embedded CDATA elements
Updated default feed list

A full list of changes is available in the ChangeLog. Download Raggle 0.3.2 (Signature).

RSS Feed is Back

raggle-rss@pablotron.org (Paul Duncan) — Wed, 25 Aug 2004 03:36:37 +0000

Well, that was dumb. :) I accidentally broke the RSS feed for raggle.org, and noone told me about it. Well, it's fixed now.

Raggle 0.3.1

raggle-rss@pablotron.org (Paul Duncan) — Sat, 17 Apr 2004 17:19:34 +0000

Raggle version 0.3.1 is now available to the world. Here's what's new:

documentation updates, added a ToC and FAQ
browser_cmd config check (if we're upgrading from a pre-0.3 version of Raggle, warn about an incompatible version of this config directive)
--import-opml takes a URL now (suggested by Doug Kearns)
applied action_insert_link_ref patch submitted by Ralf Hortsmann
fix thread reap error reported by Grant Bowman

Download Raggle 0.3.1 (Signature, Change Log). Enjoy!

Raggle 0.3.0 Windows Installer

raggle-rss@pablotron.org (Paul Duncan) — Thu, 26 Feb 2004 19:20:29 +0000

I just built a Windows installer for version 0.3.0 of Raggle. Here's the installer, and here's the signature.

Raggle 0.3.0 Released

raggle-rss@pablotron.org (Paul Duncan) — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 22:34:58 +0000

Two Raggles in less than two days? Unbelievable! Raggle version 0.3.0 is out. Here's a list of changes since 0.2.x:

preliminary web interface (via WEBrick)
'a' to add feeds inside Raggle
-A, --ascii : non-ANSI window borders
HTTP 1.0 Basic authentication (ie http://user:pass@foo.com/index.rss)
better HTTP 304 response handling
better conditional HTTP GET (Last-Modified, If-Modified-Since headers)
Win32 support (web interface only at the moment)
ignore "a " and "the " prefix when sorting feeds
manual update works in non-manual mode now (to force update). same as passing SIGALRM to Raggle
SIGHUP invalidates all feeds and starts feed grabbing thread
categories (web interface only)
view source (bound to '\')
added --max-items (max # of items/feed)
added 0, $ keybindings (beginning and end of list)
get Win32 proxy from registry
config.rb overrides settings in default config on a per-key basis, rather than replacing them
fixed SSL support
--edit accepts -1 for batch operations
preliminary DRb interface
updated mono theme (for terminals with bold, w/o color)
screwy feeds don't (shouldn't?) kill feed grabbing any more
parallel feed grabbing
faster rendering (less refreshes, cache reflow)
--add can take a URL (ie raggle -a 'url')
whole slew of bug-fixes

And here are the relevant URLs:

I've also contacted the Debian and Gentoo maintainers, so hopefully we'll have some fresh Raggle packages for both in the very near future.

Raggle 0.2.5 Released

raggle-rss@pablotron.org (Paul Duncan) — Fri, 20 Feb 2004 10:37:34 +0000

Raggle version 0.2.5, fresh off the grill. This release fixes the regular expression warnings reported by Brian Almeida. You can download the tarball here, and the signature is here.

Raggle in Gentoo Linux

raggle-rss@pablotron.org (Paul Duncan) — Mon, 08 Dec 2003 00:47:39 +0000

Raggle is now in available Gentoo. Supposedly only version 0.2.2, and masked, but it's a start. Emerge away!